She was born Anna Marie Racioppi in Manhattan and grew up in Greenwich Village. She graduated from Washington Irving High School and began working as a teller for First National City Bank, now Citibank, in Manhattan.

She and James Tobin wedin Our Lady of Pompeii R.C. Church in 1954 and lived in Greenwich Village until 1958, when they moved to Eltingville. She left the workforce and became a full-time mom.

Mrs. Tobin's son, John, died in 1993.

Surviving, along with James, her husband of 58 years, are her sons, James and Kevin; her daughter, Lynn Marie Boardman; a brother, Robert Racioppi; two sisters, Beatrice Penna and Joyce Venticinque, and nine grandchildren.

The funeral will be Monday from the John Vincent Scalia Home For Funerals, Eltingville, with a mass at 10 a.m. in Our Lady Star of the Sea R.C. Church, Huguenot. Burial will follow in Resurrection Cemetery, Pleasant Plains.